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Album	You	Global	Diff
Southern Rock Opera Drive-By Truckers	5	2.82	+2.18
O.G. Original Gangster Ice T	5	2.97	+2.03
Wild Gift X	5	3	+2
Another Green World Brian Eno	5	3.12	+1.88
The Renaissance Q-Tip	5	3.24	+1.76
Mama's Gun Erykah Badu	5	3.25	+1.75
Neon Bible Arcade Fire	5	3.35	+1.65
It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back Public Enemy	5	3.37	+1.63
Lost In The Dream The War On Drugs	5	3.39	+1.61
The Gershwin Songbook Ella Fitzgerald	5	3.53	+1.47

You Love Less Than Most

Album	You	Global	Diff
The Doors The Doors	1	3.95	-2.95
Beautiful Freak Eels	1	3.28	-2.28
Little Earthquakes Tori Amos	1	3.23	-2.23
Henry's Dream Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	1	3.11	-2.11
Music For The Jilted Generation The Prodigy	1	3.07	-2.07
No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live) Motörhead	1	3.06	-2.06
Water From An Ancient Well Abdullah Ibrahim	1	3.04	-2.04
Searching For The Young Soul Rebels Dexys Midnight Runners	1	3	-2
Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts The Adverts	1	2.97	-1.97
A Wizard, A True Star Todd Rundgren	1	2.83	-1.83

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It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

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This Is Hardcore

Pulp

2/5

I am mot Jesus tho I have the same initials…

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1-Star Albums (12)

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Southern Rock Opera

Drive-By Truckers

5/5

What a ride. Funny, sad, made me roll my eyes, made me nostalgic all at the same time. Three Great Alabama Icons was arresting in a way I haven’t experienced in so long. Will definitely listen again

Bringing It All Back Home

Bob Dylan

4/5

Not my favorite Dylan but a lot of good stuff! Stand outs are Mr. Tambourine Man,Love Minus Zero, and Baby Blue. Sometimes I tune out in the long songs but who’s to blame me

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix

4/5

I struggled paying attention and getting through the longer songs, but it was cool to see rainy day dream away in context. I also liked the atmospheric stuff and feel like it would have been so cool to see live. Excited to listen to more Hendrix

Play

Moby

4/5

really blown away by this one.

A Rush Of Blood To The Head

Coldplay

3/5

Nostalgic for sure. Clocks was fun

The Gershwin Songbook

Ella Fitzgerald

5/5

Beautiful. She knows what it feels like to be in love, and to be out of it. What a treat, even though it was long.

Little Earthquakes

Tori Amos

1/5

I can tell she was giving it her all and I respect her for that but it just didn’t really hit for me

Colour By Numbers

Culture Club

2/5

Fun listen but I don’t think I’ll do it again

Surf's Up

The Beach Boys

2/5

Didn’t realize how corny The Beach Boys are, but there’s certainly a time and place. I really liked a day in the life of a tree, of course

The Yes Album

Yes

4/5

Great listen for Father’s Day. Excited for more

Water From An Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

1/5

Not my favorite jazz—kind of busy, better dancing music than easy listening imo

A Wizard, A True Star

Todd Rundgren

1/5

Weird

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

2/5

I don't really get the hype

The Doors

1/5

Not my fave, but want to listen to more

The Renaissance

Q-Tip

5/5

Really fucked with this album. Very 2008 and just a generally fun and energizing listen

Music For The Jilted Generation

The Prodigy

1/5

Not my bag

We Are Family

Sister Sledge

4/5

Excellent listen. Really fun, start to finish. Loved the remixes especially

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Public Enemy

5/5

Amazing listen. Listened the same day I watched Do the Right Thing for the first time during a Bed-Stuy heatwave. Transformative

Wild Gift

5/5

Really loved this album! Didn’t know the band at all but combines a lot of elements I really dig.

Birth Of The Cool

Miles Davis

2/5

I just don’t like jazz all that much but this was an ok listen

Felt Mountain

Goldfrapp

2/5

Didn’t like, weird and not for me.

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield

2/5

Nothing to write home about but a groovy listen!

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding

4/5

Really beautiful album. Soaring vocals and melodies. Pleasure to listen to his interpretations of a lot of these hits, even if they’re not my personal fave versions.

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

3/5

One of my first real listens of funk. I liked it, but still not a huge fan of the long songs. But more tolerable here for sure. “More power to the pussy/more pussy to the people” preach

The Nightfly

Donald Fagen

4/5

Really enjoyed this one! Excited for more steely dan

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon

2/5

I can see why everyone hated Yoko Ono… although this is ofc in John for having a bad solo career.

C'est Chic

CHIC

3/5

Not my favorite disco/funk but a fun listen overall!

Beautiful Freak

Eels

1/5

I really didn’t like anything about this

Head Hunters

Herbie Hancock

2/5

I guess I don’t like jazz that much

The Sounds Of India

Ravi Shankar

3/5

I love albums like this. Def want to relisten

Moving Pictures

Rush

2/5

Nothing to write home about

Purple Rain

Prince

4/5

I had to warm up to this album, the first bit def wasn’t as strong as the second half. Let me just say prince I wasn’t familiar with your game …. Respect

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

3/5

Nothing to blow me away but a fun listen. Not sure if I’ll come back to these a ton but I liked hometown blues

Lust For Life

Iggy Pop

5/5

This rocked

No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Live)

Motörhead

1/5

Not my vibe but I’m sure it would be a concert. And too long

Hotel California

Eagles

3/5

Had some stand outs but otherwise pretty easy listening tbh

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

2/5

For a band called joy division they’re not very joyful

Untitled (Black Is)

SAULT

3/5

A pretty long album and some of the songs weren’t it for me but I liked the artist and want to listen more

good kid, m.A.A.d city

Kendrick Lamar

5/5

No skip album

Rio

Duran Duran

2/5

Not world changing. Sort of eh but I think my dad had this album.

Music

Madonna

2/5

Fun but not revelatory for me personally

Paranoid

Black Sabbath

3/5

I can tell why ppl love this

The Chronic

Dr. Dre

4/5

Fun and funny but some of the skits were gross. Liked public enemy and Kendrick better but this was also v good

Automatic For The People

R.E.M.

4/5

Really liked this one

Another Green World

Brian Eno

5/5

Audio nostalgia. Five star album.

Tuesday Night Music Club

Sheryl Crow

4/5

a nice throwback. I can imagine what this would be like listening for the first time

Diamond Life

Sade

4/5

Really fun to listen to the bass lines on this one

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music

Ray Charles

3/5

I feel like I wouldn’t really call this country and western but it was fun to listen to. Not my fave of all the covers tho

Music From Big Pink

The Band

4/5

This was a fun listen! Cool to hear take a load off in context

Phrenology

The Roots

4/5

Excited to listen to more of the roots. Liked this one a lot, probs more than Dr Dre

Brutal Youth

Elvis Costello

2/5

Billy joel but worse imo

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd

5/5

What can I say, this album blew my mind the first time I heard it back in college. I was going through my uncle’s vinyl’s. He passed from AIDS in the early 90’s, several years before I was born. Listening to his music was a way for me to get closer to him. I have a lot to say about this album—Gimmie Three Steps spoke to me under a queer listening, imaging myself flirting with some guy’s girlfriend. I can see a queer country reworking of that song in modern day and I always love singing along when it comes on. You can’t bring up Lynyrd Skynyrd and not talk about the Confederate flag and feud with Nike Young. I think the Drive-By Truckers did an excellent job examining this in their album Southern Rock Opera, getting to the root of “the southern thing” and how politicians weaponize racist symbols and policies to divide a region where nearly everyone’s neck is under the same boot. The real southern thing is seeding division among the people and breaking class solidarity so that everyone can be exploited—and I think the finger pointing that comes from northerners is just a hammer in that toolbox.

Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby

Girls Against Boys

1/5

Not interested

Henry's Dream

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

1/5

No offense but who put this on here

Go Girl Crazy

The Dictators

3/5

Fun!

Lost In The Dream

The War On Drugs

5/5

Loved this one

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Animal Collective

3/5

Fun!

Microshift

Hookworms

3/5

Good listening for my acupuncture appt but I think I liked the last album more

New Wave

The Auteurs

2/5

Fun but nothing to write home about imo

With The Beatles

Beatles

5/5

No skips album. My grandparents saw this on tour, and I have a ticket to the show taped on the album cover of the albums vinyl.

Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Dexys Midnight Runners

1/5

….i was hoping for more

In The Court Of The Crimson King

King Crimson

2/5

Don’t judge an album by its cover except this one

Logical Progression

LTJ Bukem

1/5

This walked so the challengers soundtrack could run

This Is Hardcore

Pulp

2/5

I am mot Jesus tho I have the same initials…

Fragile

Yes

4/5

Really enjoyed this one and all the diverse instrumental tracks

O.G. Original Gangster

Ice T

5/5

A revelation

Apocalypse 91… The Enemy Strikes Black

Public Enemy

4/5

I prefer it takes a nation of millions, I think, but loved this one as well.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

2/5

I only really liked one song from this album. This guy just sounds like guyliner embodied. He’s great at what he does but it’s just really not for me

Imagine

John Lennon

2/5

I don’t think he really protected yoko with this work and can see why the world came for her, although I am a yoko ono apologist. Imagine is one of the corniest songs ever but has done a lot of good, I think

Mama's Gun

Erykah Badu

5/5

Love this album. No notes

Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury

The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy

2/5

This felt like if we didn’t start the fire, schoolhouse rock and public enemy had a baby. I like political hip hop but it was a bit too much for me and not enough musical chops. I would have preferred to read an essay by him. Some did make me giggle but the rhymes weren’t there imo

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill

4/5

Really loved so much of this album but it didn’t blow me away the way that mama’s gun did. I think maybe all the hype around it set my expectations really high. I think perhaps the album was too long for me and if it were condensed it would have stuck more. But a lot of really great bangers

Crossing the Red Sea With the Adverts

The Adverts

1/5

Some punk is seriously mediocre

Neon Bible

Arcade Fire

5/5

Loved this album. Felt like coming home in a way I totally didn’t expect

All Hail the Queen

Queen Latifah

2/5

Bit let down I won’t lie

The Köln Concert

Keith Jarrett

2/5

Why does this man have to be groaning so much. I kept thinking there was a weirdo next to me on the street as I walked through NYC. Otherwise, I liked it fine.

To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar

3/5

To me, not as good as good kid maad city but still some really great bangers.

Warehouse: Songs And Stories

Hüsker Dü

2/5

Illmatic

Nas

5/5

Life’s a bitch and then you die! This one was really fun.

Electric Music For The Mind And Body